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3 days ago |
politifact.com | Grace Abels
Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info If Your Time is short Signs that the video was generated by artificial intelligence include people having the wrong number of fingers and items passing through people’s bodies. What has six fingers and spreads misinformation? People in an artificial intelligence-generated video.
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1 week ago |
politifact.com | Maria Ramirez Uribe
Plain clothes immigration officers arrested New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander at an immigration court building June 17 as he tried to escort an immigrant after a hearing. Lander, who linked arms with the immigrant, repeatedly demanded to see a judicial warrant for the man’s arrest. "I will let go when you show me the judicial warrant," Lander said as agents tried to physically separate Lander from the immigrant.
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1 week ago |
politifact.com | Amy Sherman
President Donald Trump has repeated his push for a nuclear deal with Iran in recent days, seven years after he walked away from a multilateral deal that allowed the U.S. government to monitor Iran’s weapons program. Trump has vowed to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon since announcing his candidacy in June 2015. During his first term, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal signed by his predecessor, President Barack Obama, and then broke his 2016 campaign promise to negotiate a new one.
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politifact.com | Loreben Tuquero
After Vance Boelter was identified as the suspect in the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, social media users examined his footprints to determine whether he’s a Democrat or a Republican. The discourse continued after the manhunt and arrest, and some social media users shared an image that they said should clear things up. "Democrats saying that Vance Boelter is a Republican, let’s put that to rest right now," text in the image of a June 16 X post says.
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politifact.com | Loreben Tuquero
State lawmakers have filed hundreds of bills to address artificial intelligence’s potential harms for child safety, learning, elections and more. Those laws wouldn't be possible for 10 years under the massive policy bill moving through Congress. The Trump-backed tax and spending bill reached the Senate with a 450-word section prohibiting states from enforcing any law or regulation limiting or restricting AI for the next 10 years.
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